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Now let's see . . . lead comes from the ground . . . but it's an "environmental hazard" to "return" it to the ground . . . . I'm just so fuzzy and warm knowing that the government is out there "looking out for my interests" and "protecting me from myself". I'd say more but I have to go and put the new "safety device" on my spoon before I use it to eat my soup.

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... yes, you are correct. It is indeed the last primary "smelting" plant in the country. (refining ore into a base metal).

There is no talk of re-location.

The EPA has been after this company since "08". $100 million to bring the plant up to EPA standards. If anyone reads the story I linked to above, it spells it all out pretty well.

This plant produced about 450 metric tons of product per year. China is the leading producer at almost 1.5 million metric tons/year.

Seems it's not acceptable for a US company to exceed EPA requirements, yet it's fine for China to produce 3 times as much product with ZERO environmental standards what-so-ever, and OK for it to be imported in the US.

Seriously?

Just sayin...

Birch

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Black Powder: Not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win...

There is more to this smelter closure than was discussed at the link. That plant has a sordid history of lead pollution. A jury awarded citizens a multi- hundred million dollar judgement against that plant.

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Just another reason you should make sure everyone you know uses their constitutional right to VOTE !

Boomer

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The number one cause of death in the 20th century. 290,000,000 citizens were first disarmed and then murdered by their own governments. This number does not include those killed in war.
We're from the government, we're here to help

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